You jest, but it’s normal for major construction projects to go 100% over budget and take over twice as long to complete as originally laid out.

Well, you know, there’s friends,friends of a friend, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, sisters in law, brothers in law that need a job. As some in Italy say “S’ha da mangià” (literally “One needs to eat”, meaning you need money).

Right wing parties in a nutshell: don’t hand out benefits to the sick/old/poor, we need that money for car infrastructure.